PopHealth Week

On PopHealth Week our guest is Jane Sarasohn-Kahn,  author, health economist, advisor and trend-weaver supporting  organizations at the intersection of health, technology and people. Jane  founded the popular blog THINK-Health after working for ten years with  health care consultancies in the U.S. and Europe. Jane’s clients are all  stakeholders in health: technology, biotech and life sciences,  providers, plans, retail, financial services, food and consumer goods.

In her new book, “Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds”  Jane weaves together six months of new data – including consumer market  research, health policy developments, healthcare industry updates,  clinical evidence, biostatistics and pop culture – to make sense of the  “next normal” for life, health, health care and the evolving American  commons social contract.

This timely piece tracks how the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has and will likely continue to re-shape our world;

Do follow Jane’s work on twitter via @healthythinker. And for more information or to order “Health Citizenship: How a virus opened hearts and minds,” go to www.healthcitizenship.com

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This Week in Health Innovation is sponsored by Health Innovation Media. 

Health Innovation Media brings your brand narrative alive both on the ground and in the virtual space for major tradeshow, conference or innovation summits via our signature popup studio. Connect with us at www.popupstudio.productions

I'm Gregg Masters managing director of health innovation media, the publisher of ACOWatch.com and your host today.

My guest today is Bob Matthews President and CEO of MediSync a leading management and solutions provider building an engaged network of medical group senior leadership pursuing better outcomes via analytics, planning and sustainable solutions.

Bob is a veteran healthcare executive with extensive experience as Executive Director of three medical groups for over 13 years. During his tenure, the groups expanded physicians three fold, increased payer contracts by more than 45%, and developed and deployed chronic disease management programs that led the nation in outcome results. He helped to greatly enhance medical group financial performance, resulting in increased physician compensation.

Prior to MediSync, Bob had a national healthcare consultation practice with leading medical groups, hospitals and insurance companies, focused upon medical group formation, development, and performance.

On this episode of PopHealth Week our guest is Bridgette M. Brawner, PhD, APRN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Penn School of Nursing.

A  dedicated academic and researcher Dr. Brawner academic credentials  include MDiv, Palmer Theological Seminary of Eastern University, 2017, a  PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, 2009, MSN, University of  Pennsylvania, 2005 and a BSN, Villanova University, 2003.

Dr. Brawner's specialty includes 'social justice through nursing' where data from geographic information systems (GIS) are leveraged to  develop interventions for urban populations to improve family and  community health and promote sexual health, such as preventing HIV and  other sexually transmitted infections; and the broaders lens of 'methods  and models to improve the health of historically underserved people and  communities'.

For more information on Dr. Brawner's and Penn  Nursing's work in this space, do follow them on twitter via @DrBMBrawner  and @PennNursing respectively. And for more information on Penn  Nursing, go to: nursing.upenn.edu

Detailed bio here.

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On PopHealth Week our guest is Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, the Founder and CEO of Grapevine Health.

The founder and CEO of Grapevine Health Lisa Fitzpatrick MD weighs in on health equity, population health, the COVID19 disproportinate impact on peole of color, health disparities and more.

More about Dr. Fitzpatrick

Dr.  Lisa is a medical doctor who has also worked at the Centers for Disease  Control and Prevention. Her career has spanned research, clinical  medicine, global health, community health education and patient  advocacy. She recently served as the medical director for Washington  DC’s Medicaid program. She is also a clinical professor and professorial  lecturer for the George Washington University School of Medicine and  Milken Institute School of Public Health. A member of the Aspen  Institute Global Leadership Network, she was selected as a 2017 Aspen  Institute Health Innovator Fellow. Dr. Lisa has a Masters in Public  Health from the University of California-Berkeley School of Public  Health and Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy  School of Government.

More about Grapevine Health

Grapevine  Health is on the ground bridging health communication and demystifying  health care for the community. We use videos, storytelling and  collaborative conversations between community and health experts to  improve health literacy and patient engagement.

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On PopHealth Week our guest is Kistein Monkhouse MPA.  We discuss a range of topics in the social determinants of health  domain from implicit bias in healthcare decisions to empowerment and  shared decision making.

Kistein Monkhouse, MPA is the CEO & founder of Patient Orator,  a digital health startup empowering chronically ill underserved  patients with effective communication tools and healthcare resources.  She is a former healthcare frontline worker who saw an urgent need to  build bridges across communities in healthcare. Her work is at the  intersection of public and private health using stories to bring  awareness to the importance of improving the health of people and  communities with a focus on catalyzing storytelling to address social  determinants of health.

Join us!

On PopHealth Week our guest is Charles Chima, MBBS, Msc, DrPh.

The Director of Graduate Education Charles Chima, MBBS, Msc, DrPh Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) weighs in on the value proposition of the pubic health model

Dr.  Chima is Director of Graduate Education and Assistant Professor,  Population Health at the Bower School of Population Health at the  University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC).

About Dr. Chima:

Dr.  Charles Chima, MBBS, MSc, DrPH, trained as a physician at the  University of Nigeria and worked in primary care for two years. He  obtained a master of science in epidemiology from the London School of  Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. He subsequently  obtained a doctor of public health degree in health services research  and global health and further training in health informatics at the  University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Dr. Chima is  a population health scientist who seeks innovative ways to improve  health outcomes and reduce waste in health care using the population  health approach. He has led large-scale chronic disease population  health initiatives in Houston, and provided advisory services as a  consultant to state governments in Nigeria on primary care reform. He  was also an HRSA primary care research fellow at the Family and  Community Medicine Department, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston,  Texas.

The mission of the Bower School of Population Health at UMMC "is to provide world-class graduate training to prepare the next  generation of scientists and health care professionals to improve the  health of individuals, populations, and communities through enhancing  health care systems and health policies"

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On PopHealth Week our guest is Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv. Dr. Bruce Directs the Program  for Research on Faith, Health & Justice in the Department of  Population Health Science at University of Mississippi Medical Center.

He  is a social and behavioral scientist with interests in the integration  of the full range of health determinants specifically for young African  American males and their risk factors for chronic kidney disease and  cardiovascular disease.

His current research explores the  intersection of race, gender, spirituality, religiosity, and behavior  and their implications for social and health outcomes among  African-American male boys, adolescents and emerging adults.

Dr.  Bruce is also a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and an ordained  Baptist Minister and leverages the strengths of research-, community-,  and faith-based communities toward efforts to improve the health of  disadvantaged and disenfranchised males, their families, and their  communities.

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On PopHealth Week we hosted a COVID-19 round-table. Our guests include: Dr. Nick van Terheyden, Fred Goldstein, MS, and Gregg Masters, MPH. We discuss  the latest developments in the global COVID-19 pandemic.including near term prospects for mitigation relief, effective treatment and ultimately  prevention via proven vaccines.

Today's episode is sponsored by Health Innovation Media. We bring your brand messaging  alive on the ground and now the virtual space for major trade show,  conference and innovation summits via our signature popup studio.  

Connect with us at www.popupstudio.productions.

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Our guest on PopHealth Week is Deanne Kasim, Executive Director for Health Policy at Change Healthcare.

Deanne  weighs in with a COVID-19 health policy update including commentary of  the status of the HEROS Act as well as other legislative efforts in  play.

This episode is sponsored by Health Innovation Media. We  bring your brand messaging alive on the ground and now the virtual space  for major tradeshow, conference and innovation summits via our  signature popup studio. Connect with us at www.popupstudio.production.

For  more information on Change Healthcare mission and services go to  www.changehealthcare.com and do follow them on twitter via @Change_HC.  Be sure to follow Deanne's insights on twitter as well via @DKasim.